The Western Experience: To the Eighteenth Century

by Raymond Grew, David Herlihy, Theodore K. Rabb

This text deals with the story of Western civilization. It covers social history, women's history and the interaction of the West with the other regions of the world. The text is available in a combined edition, a two-volume edition, a three-volume edition, and a Renaissance edition.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, School, Textbooks, World History, Reference

604 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Gabby]

college textbook, seventh edition, 2001

[Amalie]

This is a great textbook for anyone interested in the Western history/ European history. There was even a quite a large focus on Eastern European and even the Ottoman Empire's influence on western European history as well.

There are many colorful maps and images, which add to the narrative, perhaps many past events are in summary-type versions, but I'm a reader not a historian so it didn't bother me.

This is divided into 17 sections:

The First Civilizations
The Forming of Greek Civilization
Classical and Hellenistic Greece
The Roman Republic
The Empire and Christianity
The Making of Western Europe
The Early Medieval East
Two Centuries of Creativity
The Summer of the Middle Ages
The Crusades and Eastern Europe
The Western in Transition: Economy
The Western in Transition: Society and Culture
Reformations of Religions
Economic Expansion and a New Politics
Was and Crisis
Society and Culture in the age of the Scientific Revolution
The Emergence of European State System

[Faith]

asdfghj this took me forever to finish

[Kenny]

Excellent overview of western history. No PC BS.